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DJCAD graduate scoops top award
Mhari MacDonald | Illustration
A Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design graduate has scooped a major award at Scotland's largest open contemporary art exhibition. Liz Myhill was awarded the David Cargill Award of £1,000 for an artist under the age of 35 at this year's Royal Glasgow Institute Open Annual Show. Over a thousand artists submitted their work for the show and from these submissions, 350 were selected for the exhibition. The judges then selected 23 artists as prize winners. Liz, who studied Illustration and Printmaking then Master of Design at DJCAD, ...
Logo goes to London
Mhari MacDonald | General
A DJCAD student is set to see his work on display at an art gallery in London. Dale Duncan, a level 4 Graphic Design student, entered a national competition to design a logo for fine art suppliers Winsor & Newton. The brief outlined that the art materials company Winsor & Newton were looking for a design to wrap around the box that will hold their new line of ink. Dale created a black ink sketch of an octopus and made the shortlist of 30 designs from 700 entries. His shortlisted design will be displayed at the Griffin Gallery in London until the 28th September, 2012. Dale admitted tha...
TATE Modern launch for REWIND book
Mhari MacDonald | General
A book celebrating the pioneers of video art in the UK, co-edited by Professor Stephen Partridge from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), will be launched at TATE Modern next week. The REWIND project to exhume the lost history of the invention of British video art was led by Professor Partridge, Dean of Research at DJCAD, part of the University of Dundee, from 2004-10. The book resulting from the project, REWIND: British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s will be launched at TATE Modern’s Starr Auditorium on Tuesday, 25th September. Edited by Professor Partrid...
Guild success for graduate trio
Mhari MacDonald | Jewellery and Metal Design
Graduates of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) have won all three Gold Memberships offered by the Guild of Jewellery Designers (GoJD) this year as a reward for excellent work. Mairi Burrow, Sally Anne Fenton and Scarlett Erskine all graduated from the Jewellery & Metal Design programme at DJCAD, part of the University of Dundee, earlier this year. They went on to exhibit at the prestigious New Designers exhibition in London alongside other talented young jewellery makers from around the UK. Judges from the Guild were among the thousands of influential visitors to New Designers and...
'Making Words - Marking Words' - new exhibition showcases residency outputs
Mhari MacDonald | General
Work produced by three artists during a summer residency at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) will be unveiled at a new exhibition at the Cooper Gallery this week. Making Words - Marking Words is the Cooper Summer Residency 2012 Exhibition and will feature David Bellingham, Cally Spooner and Jesper List Thomsen, who spent the summer as guests of the Centre for Artists' Books (CAB) at DJCAD. The exhibition will conclude this year's Cooper Summer Residency, and will showcase the outcomes of the residency, which provides a space for artists to reflect upon and experiment with new ideas a...
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